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Gothenburg Named Top Swedish Logistics Location

Logistics Business Magazine

The Gothenburg region tops the list when leading Swedish industry magazine Intelligent Logistik annually ranks Sweden’s best logistics locations. It is an honourable award that we place great value on, and it is of course nice to be recognized together with the region’s other actors in the field of logistics.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

This in turn allowed Wal-Mart to replicate sales successes between outlets; creating and managing peaks in demand via its systems for buying, shipping, and of course, warehousing. WebVan went out of business in 2001 with a market value close to zero after having initially raised billions in funding. Tropicana Products, Inc.

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How will the tariff war with China affect U.S. container ports?

247 Customs Broker

And this is, of course, the goal of punitive tariffs—to apply economic pressure to Chinese exporters who will then turn this economic pressure into political pressure. Subscribe to Logistics Management Magazine! Through all these major world events, the number of containers loaded with imports moving over U.S. But this is unlikely.

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How Manufacturing in the US Continues to Grow Despite Fears Over Higher Costs, Lower Percentage of GDP & Election-Year Woes

GlobalTranz

The first recovery was from 2001 to 2007, but it was halted with the Great Recession of 2008. Now, some evidence does suggest a slight slowdown in specific manufacturing sectors, such as the auto industry, explains Joel Kotkin of Forbes magazine. Since 1991, the U.S. The opportunities are nearly endless.

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A post-TPP America

247 Customs Broker

trade deficit, Stumo said. China’s accession provided a “massive onramp” for the nation to export more products to the United States, displacing U.S. producers’ ability to sell at home and not providing an adequate means for U.S. producers to recoup the lost sales through countervailable sales to China, he said.